bin heard of by that afore described woman who drew by her singular beauty many a worthy Captaine Soldier to hir company Wherfore this man for loue of his Countrymen sought to perswade them in these verses as followeth De non credati a femina scioccha E non vacenda lor ficta belezza Ma riguardati come deâ—tru fioccha Miri la mente cum gli occhij cerueri Che alhora perderaila sua vaghezza De lei mirando li socii mâ—steri In which words he willeth his Countrymen to beware of the counterfet beauty of most weomen with them for that it is not natural but framed by Art with Waters Tinctures such like things The Phisiognomer also reporteth that manie women like delighted to garnish and decke vppe themselues carrying the head after the manner of the Hart with the eyes rolling and turning heere and there still turning the head one while on the right side another on the left now vpwarde then downward which argueth an especiall vnstablenesse and an vnsatiate luxury in that creature In so much that if they intensiuely possesse or haue these then such be for the most part cremeriti and of experience saith the Phisiognomer do I report this Where sundry men are named to bee effeminate is vnderstood and ment two waies the one when as such be delighted to go in apparrell and decked with ornaments like to women the other to appeare lascâ—uious and weake both of will and courage The quality of which apparantly declares the mind for the most part doth like ensue and answere to the disposition of the body For such be noted of experience to be vnfaithfull and euill reporters lyars for that through their counterfaiting answer in parts to be kinde fraudulent and wily Further the youthful delights in men is séene vnto xx yeares or néere vpon for that the natural heat is al that tune couered and hid of the moysture The knowledge of which is well discerned through their members then being soft that suffer in a manner as the women The wearing of heauy garments customablie doth argue a heauy brain but the garments light witnesseth alight braine which rule much furthereth the person minding to Phisiognomate on any subiect The haires of the head Blackish in colour if they be meanely thinne as writeth Palemon and the like Albertus Aristotle and Conciliatore doe then denote very honest conditions and both a good disposition iudgement and nature in that person The haires of the head yellowish and meanly thin denoteth that the Sun and Mercury to â—ear sway in the qualities and nature of that person after the mind of the Phisiognomer which I thereto agrée Conciliatore writeth that he which hath the haires of the head small and in all other partes of the body standing vpright is argued by iudgment fearfull for that such persons in great fear appear the like which for that applied to the condition of the passion Alike reason of the â—ame vttereth Albertus which affirmeth that the windy moisture is cause of such an vprightnesse and staring of the haires Yet be the hayres sometimes crisped curled and hard which procéede thorough the drinesse in the sharpe heat is causing and working the like The worthy Almansor writeth that the crispeâ—nesse of the haires and of these standing vpright doe demonstrate a hot quality and hasty nature in that person Héere in the first persons touching the colour of the haires and the effeminacy of parts doth the Phisiognomer aptly apply the Moon and Venus but in the second kind doth he néere attribute the Sun or rather Mars The haires of the head lying flat and reaching out on the forehead denoteth a strong person yet brutish of likelyhood in conditions for that the polling of heads in our time may greatly beguile the iudger applied to the Beare and other Wilde Beasts The like iudgment the Philosophers say that the roughnesse of the haires on the head denoteth in many lacking educaâ—ien grace the rudenesse of manners and wild behauiour The haires of the heade after the minde of the Philosopher Aristotle very thin indicates an effeminate minde for the lack of bloud thorough which not only a slownesse but a womanly corage and dulnesse in conceiuing is procured A much quantity of the haires of the head lying 〈◊〉 and a part on the middle of the fore-head folding and widing vpward toward the braine or crowne of the head do argue after the agréement of Authors that such a person to bee both subtile and wily yet in honest and iust causes not found so aduised and witty for which reason attributed of the Phisiognomer to the barbarous sort The haires of the head flat lying of either side descending to the forehead doe declare such a person condicioned to the nature of the horse The haires next the Temples small and thin doe denote a cold person and weake of strength the reason of which séemeth to bée for that the temples supply that place where the great Arterâ— and vaiues doe end And in this the place should naturally bee hot through which causing the engendering of haires in that the same is procured of heat For which cause when the haires of the temples be small and thin doe then denote the lacke of naturall heat and applied to women being theâ—â—are of haires The haire of the temples thin yet found stiffâ— do then denote not onely a feareful person but cold also by nature The haires thicke growing about the temâ—â—â—â— and eares doth denote that person of experience knowne to be of an hot nature and prone to the veneriall act The haires in that place if they shall be big 〈◊〉 whiter doe then denote vntaught manners 〈◊〉 rude conditions applied to those brutish sort named the Frizeland men The haires in the same place if they shall bee either perfit blacke or flaxen of colour doe then argue a violent and furious mind applied of the likelihood to the Boare The haires so it and thin and excéeding small do then declare an effeminate mind and courage and that this person not onely lacking blood but to be dull of sense and slow When the haires shall be yet much thinner 〈◊〉 then innuate a crafty hard or néere and couetous person applied after quality to the fearefulnesse and couetousnesse both of the Barbarian and Assirian for that the Assirians are by nature excéeding couetous The haires much and grosse and flat lying with a hairinesse of all the body in a child doe witnesse the melancholy to ensue that is to â—â—y to become franticke and mad When the haires in age are much increased then doe they represent the much adâ—stion aboue nature which so causeth the sicknesse of innocency and foolishnesse The vttermost line or creast of the hairs of the head if the same reacheth and goeth from the forehead do then argue a crafty person hauing a peruerse and wicked vnderstanding The vttermost line or creast of the haires if the same extendeth to the forhead
vicious person of al others that euer the Phisiognomer vnderstood or knew in his time In a man the face remaineth but the countenance doth alter so that the continuance is named of the Latine word Volando which properly in English signifieth a flying or vanishing away The countinance appearing sowre through the forme and condition of the lips chéekes forehead and grinning doth indicate such a person to bée a foole and franticke at times by the report of the Phisiognomer A chéerefull and smiling countenance séene doth innuate such a Creature to bee giuen vnto mirth and to be libidinous after nature The face often sweating and that of a light or small stirring doth argue hotnesse or a hot condition to consist in that person And such a Creature is knowne of experience to be leacherous gluttonous and a great féeder Of which insueth indigestion and a sicknesse to come as the Phisiognomer hath sundry times noted The face appearing valled or dented in and rather more leane than fat doth innuate such a Creature to be iniurious enuious a lyar contentious cruell yea a Murderer if the same especially be annexed vnto adustion and that the colour be eyther â—anne or yellowe appearing as the same the Physiognomer sundry times hath obserued and knowne And euery countenance when the same apeareth ful of flesh and fat doth denote by the agréement of most Writers such a creature to be sluggish and giuen vnto pleasure and wanton actions The face appearing verie much awrie leane and long procureth after the minde oâ— the Phisiognomer a very rude creature in conditions malicious and â—nuious and the same affirmeth lerned Rasis A sad countenance indicateth sadnes and heauinesse of minde in that creature but the frowning looke dooth denote such a person to be a bethinker and an immaginer of déepe matters yea wily fearfull in actions and indeuoreth himselfe to be crafty The face well proportioned both in the forme of the flesh colour and in the parts connexed doth argue a laudable life or disposition and flowing in Uertues The face séen hollow from the beginning of the forhead vnto the end of the chin that the nose and mouth séeme placed as they were in a valley doth inuate euil conditions especially if the same bée with a wan or adust colour For such hath the phisiognomer known to haue bin murtherers full of words contentious yea Pirats and Théeues Take héed saith Cocles that you be not deceiued in the iudgement of the leprous forasmuch as their eies are rounde and the vaines eminent or bearing outward and a cytrinesse of colour mixed vnto the rednesse and such are caused to be quick of stirring and possesseth a straitnes of the Nosestrils with a most vehement hoarsenesse that it causeth that person as it were to speake thorough the nose The Gums also of such creatures and the ends of their noses are known to be beaten away their skin besides is caused rough and the haires of the ouerbrowes shed away al which by the face may partfull be knowne as the Learned Arnoldus de villa noua reporteth A small face and countenance doth witnesse a small and base wit The countenance formed exceeding big denoteth sluggishnes in actions a dull capacity and foolishnesse What to be noted and iudged of the condition and forme of the Nose and Nosthrils The 22. chapter MAns face aâ—ter the minde of the Methaposcopeâ— is thin and very passible and no part there is of mans body which like expresseth the passion of the mind as the face properly dooth Of which the mind altered by any cause the Methaposcopers can readily espy and iudge The passible place also of the face and the eyes which the Phiâ—osophers name to be the Windowes Messâ—ngers of the mind and next to these is the forehead For we daily see in the place that the vains exteâ—sed in many subiects when such are angry do swell in a maruellous bignes The next passible part is the nose in that the same is Cartilaginous as without flesh except the vertue of ingendring be mighty from the beginning of generation So that this before the other partes causeth mans face especially to be either comely or deformable The nose stretched and retching vnto the mouth with a decent bignes argueth the bignesse of the Cartylage and the multitude or much quantity of flesh which compasseth the same Cartilage in that the same cannot be caused but thorough a great hotnesse For the property of heat is to dilate and lengthen out so that the nose when the same is protensed or stretched vnto the mouth doth indicate the complexion of the whol indiuiduate to be hot of which both honesty and boldnesse procéedeth and is caused in that creature The Nosthrils bigge and large doe witnesse the Testicles great and that such a person to bee leacherous a betrayer deceitfull a lyer enuious couetous a niggard of a grosse wit and somwhat fearefull as certaine report yet the cause of this matter they alleadge not as the Phisiognomer witnesseth Héere the Phisiognomer teporteth that the nature of heate is to dilate but of colde to shrinke and gather together so that thorough the largenesse of the Nosthrilles is the cause of the hot complexion knowne of which the great testicles procéede and luxury in that creature for through the multitude of Sperme must the receptacle of necessity be great and large that the same may receiue and containe the Sperme or matter of the Sperme vnto the digesting of it Of the grose humors is the grosenesse and bignesse of members procured and by the consequent are the Spirites grosse so that of this grosenesse is the rudenesse of wit caused as the Philosopher Aristotle sayth in lib. 2. de part Animalibus cap 4. of which a tenacity and couetousnesse insueth in so much as such cannot thorough the same rightlie Discerne The Nose doth argue the qualitie of the hart in that a big nose doth indicate the hotnes of the hart and yrefulnes in that creature And through this hotnesse after the minde of Conciliatore is the priuity of man inlarged and caused great as aforesaid Of which certaine report these Words in Latine Ad formam nasi dignoscitur hasta Baiardi By alike reason saith the Phisiognomer may a man argue of the womans priuy place in these Latine words Nam mulieris pes est signum oris verendae The nose either big or small dooth argue by the like the mans and womans _____ to be in that the same being great doth procéede of the grosse matter and hâ—at intensed The _____ of the woman is a note of _____ For the _____ long straight and slender dooth like argue _____ to be econtra The measure of _____ is the proportion measure of the _____ of _____ in euery one Of which a learned sayeth in these words Ad formam pedis tu nosces portam mulieris The smalnesse and thinnesse of the skin of r2h _____ of a _____ is onely knowne by the condition
infortune to succeed If a line appeareth in the middle vnder the lines in the Dyameter of the Nose dooth then argue a singuler fortune and the great increase of riches The Philosopher Ptâ—â—lomeus paruus writeth that if one line reâ—cheth along the forehead as from the right side vnto the left dooth then promise such a person after nature to liue thréescore yeares If two lines shall the like stretch along the forehead do then promise such a person to liue vnto the age of thréeâ—core and ten yeares If thrée lines the like then vnto fourescore yeares If foure lines the like stretched along the forehead doe then signifie fourescore and ten yeares And if fiue lines the like stretched a long doe then declare an hundred yeares as the learned Ptholomeus writeth If the â—hree lines aboue described are crossed of other lines doe then denote hatred troubles and persecutions for the more part If the said crossinges of the lines shall make an angle and that one line be bigger then the other in such maner that the same stretcheth ouer the angle aboue the nose doth then signifie that such a person hath Enemies but they shall not greatly harme him But further of this forme of the angle crossed may a man learne and vnderstand in any work of Paulmestry that vtteâ—eth matter of the quadrangle of the hand as touching friendes and Enemies and euen the same is witnessed by the signes of the forehead If neither angle crosse or ouertwart line shall appeare on the forehead doth then signifie a lucky continuance and glory in workes and a most happy estate vnto the end of life The sharpe crossing of lines to the manner and forme of a pinnacle dooth then demonstrate both houshold and familiar enemies or enemies of the owne Kindred as Morbeth the Cardinall writeth If any two lines of the forehead are néere ioyning together in any part doe then demonstrate discord and contention with many persons The comlinesse and good proportion of the thrée principall lines of the forehead dooth denote a worthy Fame and finguler Wit as sundry Authors write and the same affirmeth the Phisiognomer If many lines are discerned in the fore-head then so appearing those are named the sisters of the three principall lines as writeth the former Morbeth If but one line onely is seene or dooth appeare in the forehead then according to the maner and forme of the same place where that appeareth with the age of the person and dominion of the Planet must a man like iudge If no line at all shall appeare in the fore-head then by reason no iudgement at all can bee pronounced When in the breaking those lines appeare crooked in this manner as the example here vnder of the one plainer expresseth dooth then signifie the greater infortune to that person As the like by obseruation was noted in a certaine Italian and sundry others If any of the lines appeareth crooked or bended vpward as a Bow doth then indicate the greater infortune But if any line downeward stretched then the lesser infortune is signified by the same as Mantâ—anus and Cocles write When in the crooking any of the lines shall bée crossed especiallie Marses line doth then signifie violent death vnto that person and this according to the positure and place of the line shall like be iudged to happen either in the second or third Age. The Ueines very bigge appearing in the Fore-head doth denote the excéeding qualitie of Choller and that such a person to bee excéeding yrefull These hitherto of the iudgement of the thrée principall lines appearing and to be séene in a manner in the foreheads of most subiects which diligently obserued and noted by due circumspection shall in the end finde this rare and Golden secret hid a long time from many good wittes yea and of these sufficiently skilfull in other lawdable Arts. And that this Jewell may not appeare mutilate and vnperfite for the lacke of more principles and instructions to further the same I intend to publish a singuler treatise verie rare and knowne but to few Students intitled Metoposcopie or by a more knowne name the view and beholding of all the lines appeering in the forehead beginning orderly from Saturns line vnto the Moones written by a most learned Mathematican and Phisition named â—haddaeus Hagecius of Hagâ—k the which aded vnto the number of thréescore examples liuely counterfeited that he by diligent trauaile noted and obserued which no doubt will much help and further those that mind to iudge on subiects by the ayde of those faithfull instructions and linely examples published in this perfit manner by that worthy man aboue named for recompence of which trauailes he in my opinion well deserueth immortall memory among other of the learned Philosophers which commendation and opinion of mine I referre to the wisedome of the Readers at the comming forth of the Treatise in the meane time I wish the Readers to vse these instructions aboue vttered Next followeth the iudgement of the ouer-browes as a part belonging to the forehead by which singuler matter may be learned and knowne The forme and iudgement of the ouer-browes The xvii Chapter THe Learned Phylosopher named Nâ—â—cius Naturae writeth in the second Book de partibus Animalium that the ouer-browes and eie-lids were ordained for speciall helpes to the face as to ornate and beseeme the same with the auoyding of other inconueniences The place of the ouerbrowes as writeth Cocles is a part of the Fore-head and formed of nature in that seate where the bones knit and ioyne together The ouerbrowes also were ordained to man as reporteth Thaddaeus both for profite and comelinesse sake these for profit that the moisture and sweat falling from the forehead might as penthouse to the eies so cast off the moysture distilling and like the humours and moisture falling from the head thorough the same eueising shoote them off without harme to the eyes The like words in a manner vttereth the Phisiognomer Cocles The ouerbrowes as reporteth Cocles were appointed by God and Nature in the knitting and ioyning of the bones for that in manie Oldâ— persons they grow and waxe so long that of necesitie and for comelinesse sake also they must bee clipped The causes of the haires as writeth the Physiognomer are noted to bee foure as the Efficient the Materiall the Formall and Finall The efficient cause of the hairs is procured two waies the one is naturall heate which eleuateth the humours from the moysture of the body and sendeth or carrieth them forth vnto the skinny parts The other is the cold ayre which both thickneth and coaguleth those humors and reduceth them into the forme of haires The materiall cause is two wayes the first is farre off and is the corporal moysture the second cause is néere and is the earthly vapor or humor which is euaporated from the moysture The formall cause is the forme of the haires as the length and roundnesse of them The finall
and politick Captaine named Francesco Rouerso on whom hee pronounced iudgment in the year 1492. and before the presence of M. Bartholomew de S. Marino a famous Chirurgian and a most special frend of the Physiognomers And as this Cocles had afore pronounced and iudged of the young man euen so came it to passe through the lack of grace that hee was hanged in the yeare of our Lorde 1496. And this Physiognomer on another named Tadeus Guidottus pronounced a like iudgment which as he reporteth was also hangd for theft by sentence of the law For these are wel known to haue a subtle wit alwaies ready and prone to euill The like confirmeth that worthy Conciliatore saying that the eyes swiftly mouing and apearing sharpe of looke are noted crafty vnfaythfull and théeues as of nature these are vttered The cause is in that through the subtlenes of wit Theft procéedeth and the strange deceiuing For the subtle wit procéedeth through the subtlenes of humors insuing of the hotnesse of complexion as aboue vttered And the mouing procéeds through a hotnesse so that when the hotnesse is great then is the switnesse intensed The Wanne and yellow Colour doth sometimes indicate the complexion or quality of Choller adust yet the same tending vnto Melancholy If to a Whitenesse to which a Gréenenesse is admixed heate insueth which of the Physitians is properly named a leady colour as writeth Almansore lib. secundo capit 1. So that this is a Swartish colour if the same appeareth nigh vnto a rednesse or a rednesse mixed to it which demonstrateth that the grosse bloud to beare sway euen as the quantity which approached to it or as the rednesse which is mixed to it This colour by the agreement of the Physitians is as the colour of the lungs when the same is newly drawne foorth of a beast that is properly named wan of colour The same of the lunges which after the drawing forth beginneth to putrifye and swell vp and a wan or leady colour appeareth in the same Héere note that the Phisiognomer willeth a man to beware and take héeâ— of the like â—â—â—ured persons iâ— that these are very euill and wicked if so be these in habitude as Cocles reporteth be not lawdable or comely Such a colour the Phisiognomer noted in sundry Cardinals that were wicked in their déeds Yea these of like colour he noted to be drunkards luxurious and practisers of false and wicked matters without any shame as the like of experience the Phisiognomer reporteth to haue knowne He further writeth that the Melancholike adust are leacherous vnlearned and exercise Swinish conditions when as their heads be speciall or Pineaple like and hauing fat chéeks Yea when the adâ—â—â—ion is ouermuch then such incurie and fall into a frensinesse The Phisiognomer noted yea he iudged before the learned sundry of a like complexion that became foolish and of these two were Students at that time who after the increase of this Melancholy became foolish according to the iudgement of the Phisiognomer The eyes small do argue such a person to bée peruerse foolish and faint-hearted applied of the philosopher to the Ape the reason is in that when the creature is hot and dry he is then malicious of the humors and spirits and is a betraier through the hotnesse and drines procéeding of the cholerick adustion For which cause such are deceiuers and partake of the Melancholy humours of which fearfulnes foolishnes insueth through a drinesse The déepenesse of the eyes procéedeth thorough a drinesse which drieth vp the moisture of the Muscles and lygaments Or which insueth a drawing together into the inner parts and the braine to bee exhausted And the paucity of the matter of the eyes doth signifye in the moysture proportioned the dominion of drinesse and melancholy adust or a dâ—inesse adustiue and for this are fearefull and deceiuers like to the Ape as the same experience demonstrateth Rasis reporteth in secundo ad Almansorem that many spottes in the eyes appearing doe indicate an euill person the rather when the Eyes shall appeare variable of colour which signifyeth the wickeder person For the varieties of the eyes procéede not but of a great hotnesse which eleuateth the vapors vnto the eies of which how much the more the variety of the eyes is so much the more doth the same argue an intensed hotnesse By that reason howe much the more diuers the spottes are so much the more is the adustion and by the consequent declareth the varietie of humours and greater adustion and this dooth manifest the adustion of the spirit of which the varieties of conditions procéede and the mightie heape of vices So that oâ— the great variety is the honest and lawdable iudgement debased or caused the worser The looke of the eyes like to a woman causeth the same disposition as of such a complexion and is the same in conditions as the Woman as luxurious and inuericundious for which cause such men of like nature be luxurious and inuericundious Of which Rasis reporteth that when the looke is like to a childs and that his whole face and eyes séeme or appeare as he smiled this is a sight-harted person and giuen to mirth without taking care of the affaires of the world The eies appearing wholy smiling with the rest of the Face in like manner be Flatterers Luxurious and il reporters or slanderers Some of this aledge a cause and report that the mirth and length of life to procéed of a good complexion whose cause are the laudable humors and purenesse of them through his agréement So that the cause of life is hotnes and moistnesse but of death coldnesse and drinesse The complexion of young men is hot and moist but oâ— old men cold and dry and the Note of the same is that such which coeate much doe liue a short time and the gelded after nature longer then those not gelded and the aged men which haue much flesh do liue longer in that the causes of much flesh is a hotnesse and moistnes By which reason Children that are hot and moist be among other ages merry and ioy through their complexion and be without cares of the minde So that such like to children in countenance are the like in complexion not bethinking earnest or waightie matters When the eyes appeare in rednesse to the burning coale such a person is denoted to be wicked and verie obstinate the reason is in that the firy colour doth indicate a most intensed Choller by reason of the hotnesse and hee is vicious and obstinate as appeareth in the Uerses in the first place Whose eyes be in colour like to the Goates eyes is argued foolish the reason is that when a Creature resembleth to any beast such a person is of the like nature complexion and conditions as in many places afore like vttered So that such Goates eyes do indicate foolishnesse and great simplicity The Phisiognomer many times looked on such a beast and found the eyes
actions The chin formed as the same were parted in two by a certain valley or dâ—â—â—â—ng in doth argue as Michael Scotus vttereth that person to be of a grosse wit vaine lightly câ—editing a great surmiser yet congruently seruiceable to another quiet and secret for the more part in his doings The chinne decerned sharpe and thinne in the quantity of flesh doth after Michael Scotus denote such a Creature to be bolde and couragious a Quarreller sometimes and fighter irefull disdainfull weake in strength and contented after a manner to serue for the reliefe of liuing The chin seen crooking vp with a hollownesse in the knitting of the Jawes and leane of Flesh that the same appeareth as it were formed sharp doth witnesse after the minde of Scotus such a person to be wicked enuious of a simple wit a niggard deceitfull soone angry ireful a surmiser bold proud a threatner a betrayer and a theefe these hitherto Michael Scotus The condition and iudgement of the Beard The xxxiij Chapter THe Beard in man after the agreement of the ancient writers beginneth to appeare in the neather Jawe which so ascendeth toward the Temples through the heat and moysture carried vnto the same from the report of the head drawn from the â—enitours which 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 especially the Sperme from those â—laces which nâ—â—e is by reason the spermaticallâ—â—eines doe dâ—â—â—eâ—â—d vnto the same place as the like appeareth in theâ—â— which ouer-much exercise 〈◊〉 whose faâ—â—s by the meanes are after 〈◊〉 â—razed and alâ—ered As touching the womaâ—s testicles in that theâ—e are but weake for the same 〈◊〉 are they known not to be bearded And such Women which are found to haue these hotter then the 〈…〉 haue also somewhat of the reflexed matter 〈◊〉 the same place whence the Sperme moâ—â— cheefâ—â—ie commeth This reflexed heat saith the Conâ—â—â—atore draweth with it the moysture of whiâ—â— in them 〈◊〉 engendered the thin and small hâ—â—res of the Beard and this especially verified in them which vse often very much â—oeaâ—â—ig For which cause the sanguine bodies that haue a thin beard and mean of length are indicated to be creatures which often and greatly desire to coeate through the common of the heaâ— and moisture consisting in thâ—â— them Héere conceiue saith the Phisiognomer that such haires doe procéede and appeare through the superfluousnesse of meates and the fumosities of them which daily ascend on high vnto the parts of the Lawes much like to the smoak of an Oueâ—heated that passeth so long through the Chinkes of the same vntill those passages through the heat are wholly stopped that no more smoake can after passe through them Euen the liâ—e do the fumosities of man issue foorth into the manner of haires which are properly named the hairs of the Beard The colour of the Beard doth sometimes expresse the qualities and quantities of the humors yet hitherto hath not the same béene heard of that any man saw a flaxen white Beard for as much as the flegmaticke humor is not found so mighty as to engender haires of the like colour through the depriuing and lacke of naturall heat to eleuate the sufficient matter vnto the engendring of the like coloured haires Héere perhaps some will argue and affirme saith the Phisiognomer that there is sundry times séene Women bearded yet these are not â—ound of a Flegmaticke qualitie but rather the same doth happen in that the humors are so subtil that of Nature such are procured to bée hot For out of these Creatures doe haires spring yea they sometimes appeare on their Jawes but properly these appeare about the mouth where the more heate doth abound and suâ—h Women séene the like is named of all men bearded héere conceiue saith Cocles that the like Woman found is iudged to be very luxurious through her heat and moyst quality of which the like Creature séen is not onely strong of nature but to be of a stout courage and manly in her facts The perfit woman is known to be sufficiently naked of haires especially about the mouth such a creature after Phisiognomy is reported to be of a good quality that is to say bashfull fearefull honest weake of courage gentle of behauiour and obedient Héere saith the Phisiognomer doth a solemne doubt arise and the same is why men are séene bearded and not women for the more part which doubt séemeth to be put forth by the learned Gulielmus Nurice to which Cocles aunswereth in this manner that the same may bée gathered to procéede of the efficient the materiall and small cause for as much as these properly serue vnto an ornament and comely beautifying of the Woman and in euerie kinde the Males are séene comelier beautified with the same than the Females Which condition of the haires properlie serueth vnto a defence of the iawes in man that the Woman for the like defence and necessitie nothing néedeth at the least so much as the Man through which the sense of feeling is knowne to be of greater force in Man So that the Man by this reason may better endure to goe bareheaded and naked in other partes in the bitter cold weather than the Woman and suffer greater stormes on the Bodie than shée may without harme to ensue A stronger reason may be rendered and giuen of the efficient and materiall cause séeing the Males in generall are knowne to be hotter than the Females For which cause the Fume in men that is the matter procuring the Haires is found both more and mightyer than in women which séeing the same is known not able to be consumed for that cause God and nature together ordained two apt places in man for the passages of them as the one by the head and other fitly by the chin and iawes which forme the beard of man Which manner of fumes consisting in the woman for as much as they appearâ— not to bee so many and mighty as well knowne they are to rest in the man for this cause are these properly and naturally sent forth by the head And a note of the like effect wee sundry times know and sée by Women found of a hot and moyst complexion that appeare bearded wee sée contrariwise that in the colde and dry men these for the more part haue very little or no Beards By which reason we gather saith the Phisiognomer that the séemely Beard waxeth not in the gelded person for as much as those parts haue then lost the benefit of their hotter qualitie through which these should engender the hot humors and fumes that properly are the matter of the haires in them And by a like reason of the former wordes it appeareth that the thicknesse of the Beard and great hairinesse in general is an euident note and iudgement of the substantiall heate and moisture and of naturall strength consisting in that Creature Héere may this argument also be propowned that séeing Children are knowne to bee hot and moyst why they waxe not bearded as men to which the Phisiognomer
head plaine to bee simple Much haire of the head and thick to be euil conditioned Of the going and mouing The pace slow and long to be witty and strong the pace flow and short to be witty yet weak the pace long and quicke to bee strong yet foolish the pace short and quick to be both foolish and weake of strength the shoulders bending forward in going to be high-minded The person going with the knées and féet turning in to be weake applied to the Woman In the talking writhing or shrugging the body hither and thither to be a Flatterer like to the fawning Dogge Leaning vnto the right side in the going to be â— Cynede applied to the excessiue appearance The eyes quicke mouing to bee gréedy and quicke Catchers applied to the Hault the eyes quick and often moouing with a steddinesse of the Bodie to be Witty and of a readie vnderstanding aplied to the condition of the passion Of the personage and stature Such as are of a very smal personage to be quicke witted and prompt in attaining any matter of the natural cause Such very big of personage of dul capacity and thereof hardly conceiuing of the contrary cause after Aristotle Smal of personage of a hot and dry quality cholericke to bee vnapt readily to conceiue and to iudge or discerne anie matter rightly Smal of personage and of a colde and moiste quality to bee apt to conceyue and readily to discerne of the contrary cause Bigge of personage of a hot and dry quality to be wittie and ready to conceiue Big of personage and of a cold and moist quality to be dul of capacity of the contrary cause The personage euil fashioned and tal of stature to be dul of capacity and euil conditioned applied to the forme the person of a comely personage and meane of stature to bee witty and honest conditioned applied to the Naturall cause A breefe treatise of the signification of Moles seene in any part of the body written by the Greeke Authour Melampus FIrst if the man shall haue a Mole on the forehead doth indicate that he shall possesse much wealth and riâ—heâ— The Woman hauing a Mole on the forehead doth demonstrate that she shall either gouerne or 〈◊〉 come vnto a high dignity If a man shall haue a Mole aboue the ouerbrow doth argâ—â— that he shaâ—l couple and ioyne in marriage both with an honest wealthy and verâ—uâ—us woman The woman hauing a Mole in the same place doth denote that she shall ioyne in marriage both with a rich faire and comely person If the man shal haue a Mole on the ouerbrow then let such a person refraine from Marryage altogether or all his life time for that such a persuit if he marry shall haue fiue wiues in his life time The woman hauing a Mole in the like place to haue likewise so many Husbands as the Man Wiues in her life time as Melampus writeth If a man haue a Mole on the Nose somewhat ruddy and another the like in the priuy place doth indicate that such a person to be ouer much giuen to the veneriall act The like Mole séene either on the nose or eye of the Woman and that she hath the like on her priuy place dooth signifie the same that is afore spoken of the man If the man shall haue a Mole ouerthwart the nose doth denote that he shall wander hither and thither through Countries and Citties A Mole the like standing on the womans nose doth protend that she shall traâ—â—ile on foote thâ—â— rough sundry countries and that she hath the liâ—â— Mole besides on the priuy place If a man haue Mole on the gâ—llet or throat 〈◊〉 demonstrate that he shall become very rich If the woman haue a Mole on the neather iaâ—â—â— doth indicate that she shall lead her life in sorrow and paine of the body because she hath that within her body which shall hinder her from the teaming or bearing of Children If the man shall haue the forme of a Mole on the tongue doth demonstrate that he shall maâ—riâ— with a rich and beautifull woman If either the Man or woman shal haue a Mole on any of the lips doth portend that he or shée to be a great féeder and a glutton If a man shall haue a Mole on the chin doth argue that he shal be rich both in the substance of Money and in possessions The woman hauing a Mole in the same place doth indicate that she shall come to the like wealth as the Man and that shee hath besides the same like Mole right aloft or against the Milt If a man shall haue a Mole in any of the eares doth argue that he shal be rich and much reuerenâ—ed and spoken of If the woman shall haue the same and that in the like place doth denote the like good hap and fortune to her and that besides she hath the like mole placed on the thigh or hams If the man shall haue a Mole on the neck doth promise that he shall become very rich If the woman shall haue a Mole so placed doth indicate that the like good fortune wealth shall ensue vnto her If the man shall haue a Mole in a manner behind the necke doth demonstrate that he shall bée beheaded except God through earnest Prayer prâ—â—ent the same If as well the man as the woman shall haue a Mole on the loines doth demonstrate a weak and poore kindred and to be alwaies néedy If on the shoulders of the man shall be séene a Mole doth signifie imprisonment and sorrowes of the mind If the man shall haue as is aboue said a mole on the throat doth promise that he shall mary both with a rich and beautifull woman If the Woman shal haue a Mole on the same place doth signifie that she shall also marry both with a Wealthy and very faire or comely man If either in the mans or womans hands shall a Mole appeare doeth denote the prosperous good lucke and enioy of children If either the man or woman shall haue a Mole on the breast doth threaten that he or she shall like much harmed by pouerty If the man shall haue a Mole on the place right against the heart dooâ—h denote him vndoubtedly to be wicked If the Woman shall haue a Mole on the left Breast then pronounce the like iudgement 〈…〉 the man If a Mole shall be séene eyther on the mans or womans belly doth demonstrate that he or shee to be a great feeder and glutton If a mole in eyther the man or Woman shall appeare on the place right against the Spléen doth signifie that he or she shall be much passionated and oftentimes sicke If eyther the man or Woman shall haue a mole on the bottome of the belly doth argue much debility and to be often sicke If a Mole in either the man or woman shal be séene néere to the priuy place denotes vnspeakable desirousnes and vnsaciate in coeating If the man or woman haue a
A PLEASANT History Declaring the whole Art of Phisiognomy Orderly vttering all the speciall parts of Man from the Head to the Foot Written by Thomas Hill Printed by W. Iaggard 1613. An Admonition vnto the Gentle Reader THE same consider and note for a generall Rule that the Significations and Iudgements after vttered in many places of this Booke doe chiefely extend and are meant rather to happen and come to passe on the brutish sort which for the lacke of grace and being not regenerated by Gods holy Spirit these in such manner are moued to follow their sensuall will and appetites For by a naturall frailty proceeded from our fore-Father Adam euery Creature after Nature is drawne and allured vnto the like dispositions and passions of the mind But to be briefe the Creatures which are regenerated through the holy Ghost doe not onely endeuour to mortifie their fleshly appetites but seeke to put away and correct all other inormities and vices resting in them although there still continueth a frailtie to sinne and offences daily committed euen of the wise which for that we be so intised of the flesh no maruaile is it saiâ—h the Phisiognomer that so many insue and follow the like steppes of sundry sentences pronounced in this Art the more is to be lamented that these so bestiall should be thus common amongst vs as we daily see and know Thomas Hill A large pleasant discourse of the whole Art of Phisiognomy orderly vttering all the speciall partes of man from the head to the foot Of Phisiognomie in generall CAP. 1. PHILOSOpher Aristotle and Concylatour agrée that to all liuing creatures it is a matter common as to suffer do of a natural inclination which as the same in beasts is named a violence euen so in men this is by a contrarie maner named an inclination For as much as by way of example in the Chollericke is knowne an inclination to yre in the Melancholicke to ware in the Sanguine to myrth and in the Flegmaticke to sluggishnesse All which inclinations are reported to be the vtterers hath of the naturall Motions and conditions in men which by reason and wisedome be well gouerned Which well appeared by Hypochrates who by his face was iudged wicked yet thorow Phylosophy knowne to be well conditioned But in beastes for the lacke of reason are these affections and conditions as Aristotle vttereth in his booke de secretis seâ—retorum may not bee gouerned in that they liue and perseuer after their sense and appetite By which euidently appeareth that Phisiognomie to be a necessarie and lawdable Science seeing by the same a man may so readily pronounce and foretell the naturall aptnesse vnto the affections and conditions in Men by the outward notes of the body which although a man may thus foretell the natural motions and actuall conditions yet of this it is not accounted so perfect and â—â—me a Science séeing by the same a man may erre in sundry subiects hauing Grace and wisedome But in that men for the more part do liue after a sensuall wil in themselues and that none but the wise and godly which is by an inward working of the spirit do liue after reason for that cause is this Phisiognomy accounted and named a Science which instructeth a man by the outwarde notes to foretell the naturall motions and actuall conditions that consist and dwel in many persons especially in those which liue after their affection and appetites rather then gouerning themselues by reason And of this did the learned Bias Priaenias report that there liued and were more of the wicked than of good persons in that so manie are ledde and mooued after a sensuall will than procured by reason which causeth that man as Aristotle affirmeth to swarue and fall from a meane in many manners but the same is approached vnto and purchased by one manner of way And two kindes there are of these Notes as certaine which of the Elementary qualitie conceiued that vtter and signifie the affections of the minde as dooth the hayrinesse of the Brest which is a note of yre thorough the hote heart And certaine are of propertie as the declining of the head to the right side in the Walking which is the note of a Cynede as Aristotle reporteth and this like is neyther gathered of a hotte nor cold cause but of the property Yet do the Perypateticks as writeth Aristotle secundo priorum vtter that not any one affection to consist and be in man or any condition of nature but that a like note is outwardly to be séen on the body by which not only that passion or coÌ„dition may be vttred but the fortune vnto good or euil by the accidentall notes may be iudged And althogh the spirit as vnto vnderstanding is from the body eleuated yet as vnto the other parts and powers is the spirite comprehended of the bodie Although the inner affectes of the spirite cannot bee iudged by the outward notes of the body yet may the accidentes of the spirit and minde according to those which together alter both Spirit and body be iudged as Aristotle reporteth in secundo priorum Auerrois vttereth that the accidentes not naturall cause no note but in the Spirite as if any knoweth the Arte of Musicke hee hath the note in the spirite and not in bodie formed of the same The lookes also of men although they doe not differ in the essentiall kinde yet do these differ in the kinde accidentall So that the accidentall difference of lookes in man doth onely suffice for the difference of conditions But if any shall héere obiect that sentence written in the seuenth chapter of Saint Johns Gospel where our Sauiour willeth none to iudge rashly after the vtter appearance of the face or look but to pronounce and iudge arighteous iudgement To this may thus be answered that the same saying of the Lord was spoken vnto them which in very déed were wicked persons of malicious conditions yet not of the matter and cause do they procure a iudgement but thorough the accepting of personnes and in the hate or contempt of men are they so alienated from the truth of the matter in iudging which otherwise must be eschewed and that especially where the person is occupied in the celestiall Doctrine This is also to bee learned and noted that any person as afore vttered to iudge alone by the face mightilie to erre and bee deceiued so that necessarie it is to gather and marke sundrie other Notes of the bodie and after to pronounce Judgement and the same not firmely but coniecturally As by this example may well appeare that if the Phisiognomer earnestly beholding and viewing any merrie person by nature doth sée him at that instant time through some hap very sadde of countinance and doth of the same iudge him to be sadde by Nature where he contrarywise is of Nature merrie or otherwise appearing then merry shall iudge him of the same to bée of Nature merrie where perhaps
by Nature he is giuen to bee sadde must néedes through these like greatly erre and bée deceiued in iudgement Héere also note that there are two manner of passions as the one naturall and the other accidentall The accidentall are those which consist of the spirit and for the same that they consist of the spirit no alteration in body is caused as of the Art Science and these by notes in the bodye are not indicated But the natural which for that they coÌ„sist in vs as afore taught for that cause doth some â—â—lâ—â—â—acion appeare in the bodie as yre feare and such like of which héereafter in this worke shall be intreated To be briefe this Phisiognomy is a knowledge which leadeth a man to the vnderstanding and knowing both of the naturall motions and conditions of the spirite and the good or euill fortune by the outwarde notes and lines of the face and bodie Yea by the pases many times is the heart bewrayed and the voyce as Aristotle reporteth are notes and vtterers of the inner thoughtes all which vnder the Phisiognomicall Science are contained Lucius Scylla and Cesare Dictatoure by the helpe of this Science found out and iudged the wilye craftes and deceites of their aduersaries many times that secretly couerd their malicious minds by their faire shewes The most singular and prudent Plato in his Phisiognomie vttereth these words That the man which hath members like to any beast insueth his nature as he which hath an Aquiline or hauked nose vseth and exerciseth Aquiline conditions as magnanimity cruelnesse and greedy catching The common sort of this day without any reason and learning do pronounce and iudge certaine matters verie strange of men as when he saith of any fowl look this person pleaseth me nothing They also say God defend and kéepe mee from the fellowship of that person marked as are the bunch backed and goggle eyed persons By which euidently appeareth that the bodily notes of Phisiognomating by the naturall conditions of men do procure cause a great probablenesse although no necessitie To conclude all the workings and passions of the spirit appear to be matched and ioyned with the bodie which especially appeareth in the passions of the concupiscible or desirefull spirite as are yre méeknesse feare pittifulnesse mercie such like which are not caused without the locall motion of the heart dilating and drawing together Of this the bodies of diuers men are diuersly disposed according to the diuers dispositions of spirits in that mens spirits throgh diuers members are diuersly disposed in their passions To end the conditions and naturall affections that consist in the sensitiue part is reported of the Phylosopher Aristotle to be the sense giuer being common both to men and beasts ¶ The knowne signes and notes both of the healthfull and sicke bodies after the condition of the foure qualities First the signes and notes of a hot quality The ii Chapter THose bodies naturally hote doe most spéedilie encrease and wax â—at as the like in yong children doth well appeare But after yeares such wax dry their vaines apparant in the places and beating fast Also their breath strong theyr voyce lowd mighty and great of strength lusty strong to coeate and much or very often desiring therto Such also do féed well brooke digest their meats Further they haue much haire on their head and in other places the like where as naturally the same should grow that thicke bristled specially on the breast The cause of which procéedeth thorough the much heat of the heart as the like may appeare after the minde of auncient men both in the Lyon and Cocke The signes of those bodies of a cold complexion or quality The iii. Chapter THose bodies naturally cold doe increase slowe and come to a fatnesse their Ueynes appeare bigge and apparant but their Pulses beate slowe Also their Beeath lowe in the hearing hauing a small voice and weake to coâ—eate so that seldome desiring thereto of the which such beget few children They also bée great sléepers and sléeping often yet eating verie little weakely digesting and bearing their meate euill Further such be white of skinne with some rednesse mixed and in the féeling appeare cold with the haires thin and slow in the growing whether the same be blacke or white Also dull of wit fearing or trembling of a light cause and weake to labour The signes of those bodies of a moyst quality The iiii Chapter THose bodies naturally moyst bee tender and soft of Flesh Corpulent with their Joyntes and bones hidde and weake of strength that they cannot long or but a while endure to labour so that the wearinesse of labour is soone espyed séene in them Also such feare and tremble in a maner for euery cause coueting to sléep much and delighting to coeate often hauing besides thin haires on the head and but a little quantity The eyes often watery and running yet in wit forwarde and apt to learne The signes of those bodies of a drie qualitie The v. Chapter THose bodies Naturally drie be well discerned rough in the feeling leane in flesh yet strong and may well endure to labor féeding well their ioynts also in the places very apparant Besides such haue much haire on the head and in the other places and that rough and curled The signes of temperate and healthfull bodies The vi Chapter THose bodies temperate and healthfull do féedâ— and drinke sufficiently according to the congruency of nature and digest the like To the thinges néedfull be sauoury to them and do hunger also in due houres ioying besides with such as be merrie and sléeping their full sléepes Further thinking themselues both light of bodie to goe light on the ground and sweating lightly yet seldome snéezing and waxe meanely Fatte but coloured and redde in the face and in the feeling hot Besides in them the fiue senses haue congruent force according to the agreement of the Age Bodie and Houre The signes of distemperate and vnhealthful bodies The vii Chapter THose bodies distemperate and vnhealthfull be in all points vnlike to the bodies temperat and healthfull so that such do euilly eate and that very little and force not to drink Also they do euilly digest and brooke their meate and to them things bee vnsauoury whereof they hunger 〈◊〉 in due houres and giue not themselues to bee throughly chearefull and merry neyther reioycing in them which laugh and bee merrie but rather alwayes sad and the like continuing Further such make their sléepes vnquietly suppose themselues heauie and to go heauily on the ground and seldome or in a manner sweate any thing at al also gape or snéese often and stretch their armes out and abroad So that such be either pale or ouer high coloured in the face and in them also are the fiue senses weake and such as cannot long endure to labour yea they soon forget matters spitting much and often and much filth séene commonly in their
doth testifie in the same climat the dominion of the black cholier Auicen also writeth that the body becommeth red through the dominion of bloud white in colour as the Juorie of the flegmatick humor Besides these the complexion hauing a mixte colour both of the white and red is after the estimation a meane temperated Rasis also reporteth that the qualitie of the bodie thorough the colour and habitude of the same of the feeling and Operations and of the matters yssuing from the Bodie is so knowne For the White and Swartish colour and of a Whitenesse and Graynesse mixed and the wanne and Leadie colour do intimate a colde Complexion But the red reddish the high red and bleake red all these Demonstrate a hotnesse of Complexion and if a clearenesse and thinnesse bée conioyned to the colour the clearenesse and thinnesse of Humours are then declared But if a troublednesse and grosenesse bée mixed to it the grosenesse of Humours is then signified The White colour besides to which a rednesse with the thinnesse and clearenesse is admixed dooth demonstrate an equallity of the Complexion That if a rednesse shall abound and the clearenesse shall be lesser the dominion of bloud is there signified But if the rednesse shall so much bée diminished that it approacheth to the colour of Juorie it dooth innuate the paucitie of bloud Which if the same shall yet be more diminished in such manner that of the same appeareth in a manner nothing at all the darke wanne colour procéedeth which portendeth the paucitie both of choller and bloud and the Dominion of Flegme in the body But if this colour approacheth to a Whitenesse to which a Gréenenesse is admixed then ensueth the same which of the Physitians is named a Leadie colour which declareth a diminution of the bloud and red choller and indicateth the dominion of the black choller and Flegme The swartish colour if the same shall approch to a rednesse or that to it this admixed doth demonstrate a grosse blood to beare sway according to the quantitie which â—o it is approached or if a rednesse to it bée admixed And the colour perfectly Swartish which is approached to a Gréennesse doth declare the dominion of the black Choller But bodies coloured with a redde Colour which is found to draw nearer to a Whitenesse are of a colde Complexion If the colour shall appeare nearer to a Gréenenesse or Graynesse shall be of a hot complexion But the other are Cytrine bodies which to a whitenesse pertake a néere subtilnesse which colour in the healthfull or in whom the multitude of blood consisteth and not for the dominion of choller So that these bodies are not Cytrins but accidentally or by accident Yet the other bodies perfectly Cytrine are somewhat cleare which like perseuer at any time And these are chollericke bodies There are besides of these certaine which with a cytrinesse approach to a gréennesse and swartish colour pertaking a smal fayrenesse in which either choller beareth sway whose complexion is proued knowne to be worser than all others The Liuer and milt hauing the like quality and condition are for the most part diseased and the health of these bodies is not firme nor permanent or continuing But the bodies hauing a darke colour which are nearer to a Cytrinesse are of a hot Complexion and neare to the red choller And those which haue a gréennesse admixed are lesse hot and pertayne to the blacke choller Conciliatour reporteth that the black colour very soft dooth declare a weake fearefull craftie man applied vnto them which dwell farre south like as the Indian that because such are Melancholick whose property is to be fearefull Againe the Moores and the Egyptians and thorough the inordinate heate vnder which they be borne are thereby but weake If the Redde Colour shall bée sparsed with a white doth then declare stout and strong persons The colour which is a meane betwéen these two doth denote a temperament of quality proportioned to them which dwell vnder such a climate The colour betwéene a yellownesse not tincted and a blackenesse which chaungeth into a cleare browne doth declare a good wit and honest manners Such persons the Philosopher Aristotle willed King Alexander to retaine to his Person and about him The colour couered with a palenesse doth testify a weake fearefull person and that such a one to be berest and taken in the loue of a woman and applied after the kinde vnto heresies except this hapneth in passions When the colour shall bée a swart Camelline mixed vnto a palenesse dooth then Demonstrate such a person to be a babler vndiscréete and full of yre The blacknesse of colour like to the cléere horne in any man is a note of adustion and this is generall as well in the members as in the colour of the haires of the head Whose colour is a darke gréene or blacke and not soft in the féeling doeth argue such persons to be prone vnto yre A Ruddy colour of the Bodie is an Argument of a mischéeuous man and endued with variable manners The colour very red doth declare such a person of experience knowne to be craftie and applyed to the Foxe also the Prouerbe sayeth that we sildome sée a little man méek and a ruddy man faithfull but the godly I héere except The face redde spotted so that the greater rednesse appeáreth in the fore-head and frée from the eies doth declare a shamefast person and applyed to passion for that the shamefast face for the most part is couered with a rednesse The colour white with some red mixed dooth argue strong and stout persons applied to the Septentrionals The colour mightily and ouer-White is contrarie to vertue for that the same signifieth the person to be a ssuggard forasmuch as he is of a flegmaticke and colde quality and through the same fearefull That Colour which is deformed with a palenesse dooth testifye a weake and fearefull person and a hafter or ouerthwarter if that neither sickenesse nor earnest studye be the cause of that palenesse The colour swarter and mixed with a palenes doth declare that person to be a glutton a Babler and vndiscréet both of yre and tongue That person which hath a rednes simply with a pleasant moouing and playing of the lippes and enlarging of the nostrils doeth argue such a mans minde to bee occupied and troubled with a most great yre and referred vnto the accidentes of the passion The Chéekes and Eyes red aboue with a certaine moysture like to watery Pimples doe Denote such to be Drunkards and Louers of Wine and strong Drinks applyed to the men of the City of Pauie If the Eyes appeare red and dry then dooth it declare such a person to be stout and soone mooued to yre and referred vnto the passion which like so hapneth in that action The eyes appearing verie blacke doe declare such a Person to bée fearefull and couetous of Gaine The eyes a white gray and troubled are notes of a
delated doe then argue a sicknesse or disease of the eyes And if these haue any flesh bearing out do denote drunkennesse especially when the eyes are bearing out and the eye-lids be dry as in many the like the Phisiognomer hath obserued and noted The vpper eye-lids couering the neather doe argue by the report of Conciliatore Albertus and others long life The corners of the Eyes dylated and large through the cause of a smiling eye doth indicate a letcherous person and this note applyed of the Philosopher to Venus The often beating or panting of the eye-lids doth argue such a person to be fearefull and vexed often with a frenzinesse as Palemon Loxius and sundry others report The eye-lids thin and in health are best commended For these declare a lawdable minde nighest approaching to God through an vpright behauiour The iudgement of the spaces betweene the eye-browes after the mind of Michael Scotus The xix chapter THe spaces betwéene the eye-browes nere ioyning together declare that person to be a niggard enuious very much desirous of beautifull things hauing a strange fortune and more rigorous then gentle in behauiour The spaces betwéene the eye-browes if they be large doth denote such a person to be of a dull capacity yet of a great boldnesse very trustie in néede of a perfit and vpright friendship these hâ—therto Michael Scotus if we may credit the agréement of these sayings The nature and iudgement of the mouings of the eyes The xx Chpter THe Phisiognomers confirme their sayinges by the signes and notes of the eyes in that the notes which are discerned in the eies be figurs and vtterers of the affections of the heart The eye is the instrumentall member of sight whose quality is moist in a round forme figured with a certaine plainnesse and formed with seuen coâ—tes and thrée humors as writeth the learned Sillanus super nono Almansoris The passions of the minde as trouble myrth loue hatred and such like are especially declared and vttered by the eyes after the agréement of all Writers The especiall colours of the eyes are knowne to be foure as the blacke whitish variable and gray as the worthy Canamusalis in libro oculorum cap. tertio reporteth and the like Iehusalis The round forme of the eyes is better moouing perfiter and vncorruptible through the lacking of corners as all the learned agrée in the fame The cornered eyes haue very often superfluous moysture standing in them as writeth the singular Constantine in libro oculorum A perfit forme and condition of the eyes doth denote an honest person as writeth Gulielmus Nurice Conciliatore Albertus and others The eies big and eminent doe argue weakenesse and a féeble courage in that these be so caused bigge thorough the much aboundance of moisture of the brain in which is coldnesse that sheddeth along by the Members and extinguisheth the bloud So thrt such a Braine is more colder and moister than it ought to bee and in such a body should bee the lacke both of naturall bloude and courage And as the spirit and store of bloude procureth boldnesse in men euen so doth the colde and moyst quallity contrarie worke and cause fearefulnesse Rasis reporteth that the Eyes béeing verie eminent and bigge doth argue such a creature to be fearefull and applied to the Hare Cunny and Frogge The eyes outward extended do denote after the mind of Rasis such a person to be foolish but the eyes déep standing doe denote such a person to be subtill and of euil conditions through the part of the wicked quality yet such be of a good sharp sight and sée further than the eminent eyes do in that the visible spirit is more gathered in the déepe eyes and the séeing vertue stronger yea the light is receiued in greater quantity as by experience is known in the Gunner which minding to shoote strait winketh with the one eye like the Carpenter in the laying of his line right Hitherto Auerroys But through the contrary cause such hauing the eies eminent be weake of sight and sée nothing so farre off The large eyes tending into a breadth of the body like to the eyes of the Parthians do indicate the moisture of bodie in that creature Such hauing the eies eleuated and standing hie out do sée from them as aboue vttered but a little way the cause is that when the eye is eminenter it is then further distant from the braine which is noted the Well-spring of the Eyes So that through the farre distance from their Spring that is the braine such eyes are hindered to sée far where otherwise the eyes standing déepe do sée sâ—â—ner and further yet such are noted to be of ill conditions Further conceiue that through the Eminency of the eies diuers matters visible are represented so that such in a short time can iudge of matters They are also bablers through the moist forepart of the fore head And thereby are noted vnshamefast and foolish the selfsame in a maner doth the learned Asculanus write in his mother tongue in libro Cerbae as followeth Gli ochij eminenti et in figura grossi Gli ochij veloci cum lo batter sermo Matri e falsi de mercedae scossi By which he concludeth that such are without discretion thorough the small discourse of vnderstanding He also saith of these that the eyes mouing fast quick procéeding of hotnes argueth irefulnesse luxury and boldnesse aplied to the Hauk and Falcon. The slow moouing of the eyes denoteth coldnes declaring sadnesse and fearfulnes in that creature Such with the eyes moue the eye-lids together are of a weake and féeble mind as Palemon writeth The eies which shut and open together denoteth a wicked and traiterous person If water shall stand in them it argueth a studious person an earnest searcher of Arts as writeth Aristotle Albertus and Phylemo Conciliatore writeth when the eyes are disformally moued that one while they run and another while cease running although by these as yet no wicked fact or mischiefe bee committed or done in cogitation notwithstanding the minde is known to be occupied with the like And such generally the Phisiognomer noted to bee of wicked conditions and prone to some violent shamefull or euill death Yea the Physiognomer hath often times obserued it in many that Rob by the high-way Ptholomy the Phylosopher Writeth that the eyes yellow so that the same procéedeth of no sicknesse doth signify such a person to be a deceyuer and cruell as the Phisiognomer Cocles obserued in sundry Bawds Murderers Further such a colour indicateth the dominion of choler with gret adustion of which occasion cannot otherwise bee caused but the dominion of malignity The eyes mouing swiftly with a sharpnesse of sight are noted théeues vnfaithfull deceyuers yea such a note hath the Phisiognomer séene many which were after hanged One of these was the sonne of M. Iulianus de Pontremulo brought vp and trained couragiously from a child vnder a valiant
violence to consist in him which of Aristotle is applied to the passion The breath passing foorth troubled and thiâ—ke as if the same were after a course of running or through some strong accidents doth then denote such a person to be violent vnaduised hasty and yrefull When the breath shall bee decerned short and thicke and through a much cutting off stopped betwéen such a creature of the Philosopher Aristotle is iudged fearefull weake of courage and strength That person which with the sight and counteâ—â—nce séemeth as he were bereft with a certaine â—odlinesse and pittifulnesse such a one saith the Phisiognomer is iudged to bee then taken and wrapped with the furious passion of loue The singuler Philosopher Aristotle vttereth vnto the mighty King Alexander that when he saith you shall sée a person much and long together beholding yea and earnestly looking on your face and that when you againe behold him so looking is of the same abashed and therwith blusheth and giueth specially at that instant a sigh against the will and that teares appeare standing in his eies such a person vndoubtedly loueth and feareth you But if you sée the contrary vnto this then iudge that creature to regard you little and to be one that is both enuious and disdainefull The breath decerned lowd cut betwéene and the sigh appearing the like doth witnesse sorrow and heauinesse for some losses happened to that Creature Hipocrates Galen and certaine other Phisitions report that the breath perceiued passing forth cold by the mouth and Nostrils in a sharpe sicknesse doth innuate death shortly after to ensue Ptolomeus paruus vttereth that he which often wéepeth for no cause reasonable shall alwaies be poore and néedy The breath by report of Michael Scotus comming out so soft that the same can scant be heard doth denote such a person to be greatly encombred with thought which condition of thought the eyes in a manner will declare The breath which is decerned sometimes still and within a good while after is drawne and fetched in ouerfast dooth argue such a creature as that Scotus writeth to bée then occupied with a present great heauinesse of the mind The head if it shaketh as he sigheth according to the mind of Scotus then for the weight of the matter euill handled and euill spoken off it argueth him to be sorry If he doth the like with the eyes intentiue or steddy looking such a person bethinketh him rather of the euils then repenterh him as Michael Scotus writeth The breath heard light breathing out by little and little without noyse dooth denote after the mind of Scotus such a person to be of an vpright mind The person which is heard to breath loud and smileth withall is iudged of Michael Scotus to be furious and a drunkard Such a person decerned breathing troubled and thicke as though he had lately run is denoted to be wilfull foole hardy irefull and of a wicked mind desiring all things what he séeth and talking of all things that he heareth He which breatheth on high and that the breath séemeth to passe through the nostrils thick quick doth argue such a creature after the mind of Scotus to be fearefull and sorrowfull Such also are noted to bee effeminate when as the other notes fortifie the same The breath so comming forth as if the subiect were encombred with the hardnesse of fetching breath such a Creature is reported of Michaell Scotus to be simple of a peruerse minde full of words and desirous of all things that he séeth The forme and iudgement of the chin The xxxij Chapt. THe chin decerned very long doth argue the abundance of matter in that by reason of the ouermuch hotnesse the same is lengthned out of which such are knowne to bee irefull cruell and hasty yet these sometimes are found to be full of words and sometimes boasters of themselues as â—oth Palemon and Constantine write Such which haue the chinne formed small and short are persons especially to bee eschewed for besides the other conditions consisting in them such are vncurteous yea rather rigorous full of wâ—â—es and enuious for these of Palemon aptlie apâ—lied â—nto the Serpent 〈◊〉 conceiue that Phisiognomy and Paulmâ—â—â—y are more manifested of experience than by â—eason yet somewhat may be vttered of the prâ—â—cipaller members which expresse the gâ—eatneâ—â—e and smalnesse of matter from the beginâ—ing of â—eneration If the chinne be sharp or formed into a round manner doth indicate effeminate conditions and a fâ—â—ble courage In that this is a feminate nâ—te as Pythagoras vttereth For the mans chin after naâ—ure ought to be formed in a square manner and not found If the vnder chin be séene so fat that the â—â—me reâ—â—heth downe to the throate doth indicate mosâ— great luxury to consist in that creature if a pit oâ— hole be especially decerned in either chéeke The chin formed of a decent or comely bignes doth denote such a person to be prone vnto the veneâ—all act yet iudge him to bee much bound 〈◊〉 God for the guifts lent him Here conceiue saiâ—â— the Phisiognomer that the chin ought to be formed neither too round nor ouer sharpe but in â— meane manner vnto a squarenesse The Chinne at the lower ende séene so doâ—uded that the same expresseth a double forme in such manner as this be not too much or too déepe dented in the middle dooth then argue as certaine report deceitfull conditions to consist in that Creature But this knowne to be a note of Venus in that place after the mind of the Phisiognomer Cocles and such a person like formed shall purchase with men great fauour and grace As the like Cocles experienced in many subiects which were knowne to bee lasciuious and that haunted the company of Harlots yea these with the Cyneds had sundry times doing and suffering There be some which haue a pit formed on breadth and by an equall line stretching as on length that more coroborateth the phisiognomers sentence The chin formed so crooked vp that the Lips séeme as they were standing in a valley doth denote the rudenesse of wit vnfaithfulnesse wicked conditons and sometimes such are knowne to be theeues vnlesse old age cause the same through the losse of many téeth The singuler Aristotle in tertio de Animalibus vttereth that such which haue the chin deuided do lesse wax bald and shed fewer haires then other Creatures The chin formed sharpe and thin or slender through an emptinesse or lacking of flesh doth indicate a bold and stout or couragious person and disdainefull The chin formed large and bigge through the much quantity of flesh doth witnesse after the minde of M. Scotus such a creature to be quiet of a meane capacity dull of wit yet faithfull secret and conuertible either vnto the good or euill The chin formed sharp sufficiently full of flesh doth denote as Michael Scotus reporteth such a person to be of a good vnderstanding lofty minded and one that feedeth sufficiently bold in
by the order of the Fingeâ— as thus the white prickes seene in the Sunnâ— Finger do signify â—he encrease of honor worshâ—â— offices and friendship with Noble persons c. 〈◊〉 reason of this is forasmuch as these denote a 〈◊〉 humour and benigne presupposing there a 〈◊〉 quality and vnderstanding of which a good â—â—â—cretion and courtesie ensueth so that such persoâ— through the same doe attaine friends and coâ—â—mended of many The like prickes found in 〈◊〉 little finger do denote friendship with the Mercurians and that Mercurie to be well proportioned and verie strong in that place about similia But the blacke prickes séene in the nailes and chiefely in the middle Finger do argue harmes persecutions imprisonment and all kinds of detriments that may happen vnto any as the same the Phisiognomer vnderstood of a certaine friend which noted the like in many persons And these he reported to like succeede according to the diuersity of the Fingers forasmuch as the misfortune and losse of riches happened after the positure of them on the Fingers But some Authours report that these doe indicate hatred The reason of this is thorough the excesse of the dry Melancholy which then aboundeth and lacke of the Naturall heate which fayleth So that the blacke prickes of the nailes doo alway demonstrate that the colde Melancholye and an earthly drinesse to ensue Yet it séemeth to me saith the Physiognomer that experience may contradict the same séeing I haue alwayes séene saith he that the blacke and white pricks on the Nayles doe come and goe away within a fewe dayes and that these to be caused of determinate effectes which otherwise cannot proceede or bee caused but through the Periode and course of the Planets in certaine yeares and months as shall appeare in many places of the Phisiognomy of the Planets to come forth The signâ—fication and iudgement of feeling after Physiognomie The xl Chapter THe Philosopher in libro de regimine principum reporteth that the sence which consisteth in the hand is the tactiue or palpatiue vertue and the course of them resteth in the heate colde rough and soft moisture drith And it is a Uertue contained betweene â—wo skinnes of which the one is in the vpper â—ace of the body and the other in the same which belongeth cleaueth vnto the flesh so that when eache of these sences is attained which God by hâ—s mighty Uertue hath Ministred to this kinde Thinne Skinnes so light as the Spiders Web arise and come from the roote of the Braine and are a fine scarffe aâ—d thin Curtaine to this kind insomuch that when the same is presented which each sense hath and the same commeth vnto those skins whâ—ch are in that substance of the braine the passages then of al the sences are gathered with the immaginatiue Uertue which representeth these to the cogitatiue Uertue which consisteth in the middle of the braine thaâ— it may beholde these and both gather and studie in the figures and examples of them that it mayâ— know in them the nociue and innaâ—ue and that the same may ve wronght according to measure which procéedeth or commeth to it of them And as Auerro is in de sensu senâ—ato vttereth that the féeling is flesh and is proper to al instruments of the senses this considered that these nothing possesse of all the senses in the acte of them which they properly comprehend but the instrument of feeling which is compowned of the qualities which it comprehendeth and for that cauâ—e doth this not comprehend but the intensed matters through his temperament and for the same reason how much he temperater the flesh shall bée founde so much the more doth it comprehende the simple qualities as heate colde dryth and moysture For these doth man enioy farre aboue other liuing creatures and is of féeling better and sensibler which especially is decerned by the hande as the flesh of the paulme and the flesh especially of the fore finger But the tongue at the end of it hath not taste in the act and for that cause when the same is imbybed and filled of certaine humors the taste then is corrupted and like is to be conceiued of the instruments of the other senses The selfe same vttereth Albertus in libro de anima where he willeth to conceiue that the skinne is wouen with sinewes very small and with heary veynes contained within the same wouen with which the Lyuer and bowels are wrapped that these may defend them from outward harmes and for this the skinne in beastes is very thick and hearie For that the same hath not any protection or outwarde defence but the skinne in men is thinne For which cause it is protected and succoured by garments from winde colde and raine Séeing the skinne compowned of the sinewes is naturally white for that cause is the propertie of the sinewes procured that the same retcheth out and draweth in and is white in colour but the rednesse of bloud passing by them appeareth to the eye So that whose colour of the hande or face is white or redde as Phylemon vttereth and of a good féeling doe denote the faithfulnesse of mind constancy and truth and this confirmed if a commensuration or comelinesse of forme consist in the other members These hitherto vttered of féeling shall héere suffice The condition and iudgement of the backe bone The xli chapter THe backe bone great that is in the length and bredth doth argue strength of the creature and the royall members to be strong and naturall heate mighty as afore vttered especially when the ridge or backe bone is musculous and without a softnesse of flesh decerned is for the same applyed vnto the Masculinity But if the back bone be found narrow and compassed with soft fleshe that person is iudged of a feminine action forasmuch as the rest is narrow the royall members féeble in heate and their actions are knowne weake and féeble in conditions yea these haue a dead minde or faint courage applyed vnto the feminine kinde Of which Rasis reporteth that the largenesse of the back bone doth argue such a persoÌ„ to be strong arrogant and furious in yre The backe bone narrow and couered with soft flesh doth denote such a person to be effeminate The crookednesse of the backe doth intimate the wickednesse of conditions but an equallity of the backe is then a good note These hitherto Rasis The learned Conciliatore vttereth that the back bone large and well brawned and strong of bones is applyed to the man kinde and in the contrary manner to the woman kinde The back bone crooked if the same be couered with soft flesh and slender in the gyrting place doth denote such a person to excell in naturall guiftes and to haue very great pleasure in hunting Yet some affirme that the crookednesse of the backe to declare the wickednesse of conditions The thinnesse of the backe doth denote that person to be of a contentious nature and spitefull
The back large and vnextensed doth denote strength arrogance and the vehemencie of a strong yre The neather part of the back bone if the same lyeth broad to the buttocks be compassed with a soft flesh doth indicate an effeminate person compared to the woman But if the same appeareth long and shall ende sharpe at the ende doth argue wantonnesse vnto the veneriall act yet with a temperancy and feaâ—efulnesse Such also hauing a great large and strong ioynted back are reported strong econtra But broad thinne narrow and flatiâ— doe indicate weakenesse These hitherto Conciliatore Certaine report that the backe bone hearie leane and very much eleuated or bearing out froÌ„ the equallitie of partes to denote such a person to be vnshamefast malicious rude of a dull capacitie weake of small labour and sluggish Whose back bone is decerned bigge and fatte doth argue such a person to be variable sluggishe and very craftie or full of deceite The backe bone thinne long and leane doth signifie such a person to be weake of a light cause fearefull vaine contentious and very light of beliefe The backe bone from the shoulder points vnto the girdlestéede when it is short and sufâ—icient broade doth denote such a person to be hasty in the venerall action as the Phisiognomer oftentimes noted in sundry persons Here conceaue that the backe bone is mente and reckoned from the shoulder points vnto the gyrdlesteede Of which is to be noted that the backe bone be large doth then argue the breast the ribbes flanckes to be large and of necessity it ensueth that the composition of Nucha the neck to be strong with a decent forme of the head And the inner members haue their receptacles great and the knittings of the motiue sinewes are of a due proportion Et econtra contrarium denotatur By the loynes the ingenious Phylosopher Aristotle meaneth from the gyrdlesteede vnto the beginning of the buttockes So that when the same place hath a largenesse doth argue strength in that creature through the plentie of muscles and such are delighted in the hunting of beastes and applyed to the Lyon and Greyhound in the forme The condition and iudgement of the breast throate and pappes The xliii chapter THe breast is that part which containeth the spirituall members for that in it are certaine partes containing and certaine contained The partes containing are fâ—wer that is the fleshe the brawny part the pappes and the bones The partes contained are eyght that is the hart the lungs the pannycles the ligaments the sinewes the veynes the arteries and Hysophagus The Phylosopher Aristotle vnto King Alexander vttereth that the largenesse of the breast and bignesse of the shoulders and back doe argue such a pâ—rson to be honest bolde of a ready vnderstanding and witty The worthy Conciliatore reporteth that when the â—eather part about the veysande the shoulders and breast shall be euill distinguished and flatte doe signifie the rudenesse of witte and foolishnesse and that such a person not to be apt to attaine any speciall handy craft When the weysande beneath shall be farre dystant from the shoulders and large doth denote such a person to be of a féeble courage The weysand being a meane doth then argue such a person to be honest conditioned and strong These hytherto Conciliatore Here conceaue that the weysande appearing emynent and large doth denote an effeminate person especially if he be double chinned The breast large and well proportioned with the other parts large is a most perfit and true note to be conceiued in euery creature forasmuch as this largenesse of the breast is proper to man The breast thinne and weake compowned doth argue a weake courage and will after the minde of certaine Authors The breast thick couered with fleshe doth denote such a person to be vngratefull as the Physiognomer reporteth Whose breast is mightily bending in and that the Muscles so procéeding that through these are caused lyke to an hollownesse doth denote a peruerse person and wicked When this is bery emynent the heart of such a person is hote of a small vnderstanding and dayly wéepeth or singeth Rasis affirmeth that the qualitie of the heart if it shall be hote doth argue the pulse to be quicke mouing and often and the breath fast Much heare séene on the breast and thick and that in the féeling the same perceiued hote such a qualitie of the heart doth demonstrate that person to be bolde sturdie and very yrefull The composition of the body both in the bignesse and smalnesse is to be considered for that the same demonstrateth the qualitie of the heart So that the breast formed big doth argue properly the hotenesse and bignesse of the heart and this the more confirmed if with the same the head appeareth small or that it be not big which iâ— iâ— shall so be a man néedeth not to haue regarde vnto any other signes In like manner the breast formed small and the head appearing seemely or but meanely big doth demonstrate by that reason the smalnesse of the heart and coldnesse of the quality in the creature If the bignesse of the breast appeareth to aunswere vnto the bignesse of the head or that the smalnesse of the breast shall be proportionally â—ormed to the smalnesse of the head then ought a man to haue regard vnto the other notes The colde qualitie of the heart doth procure a weake pulse and â—eeble breath through which the breast is caused to possesse fewe heares on it and those but small so that the breast by the meanes is â—ound colde in the féeling The perâ—on being of such a qualitie is noted fearefull and sluggish The quality drie hath a hard pulse and is thorowâ—ut the body brawned swartish of colour The breast also thinne of flesh but the veynes appaâ—aunt and hearte of bodie and the skinne both thick and harde But the moyst complexion doth cause a soft pulse the breast naked of heares the fleshe also softe and gentle and such a person is noted effeminate The complexion or qualitie hote and dry causeth a hard and quick pulse and the same often and engendreth much heare both thick and stiffe on the breast and on the thighes The breath also out of the same qualitie proceedeth both great and often and the whole body besides is in the feeling decerned hote and brawned and the veynes apparant The person being of this quality is noted yrefull and obstinate But the qualitie decerned colde and moyste worketh the contrary to these aboue vttered these hytherto the wordes of the auncient Rasis To come vnto the matter and purpose saith Cocles that is when the breaste is sounde well compowned and orderly formed doth indicate strength manlinesse boldnesse the others lyke and aunswering which properly belong vnto the man as the Philosopher Aristole meaneth and such a habitude ought not to appeare much fleshly nor so soft in the feeling as the softnesse of the woman The like wordes vttereth the singuler
Toes and the nayles of them crooking like vnto the Hawkes Tallents or clawes are denoted after the minde of Aristotle to be Deceiuers Theeues violent Catchers and Filthy talkers The like iudgement is to be giuen of the Fingers and Nayles so crooking For the Phisiognomer alwayes obserued and knewe these which possessed the nayles and fingers thus proportioned and formed to be of a Chollericke quality yet this note I saw saith he to be lawdable in iolly Warriors and right good Soldiers and in those which Marses beame séemed to be gouerned in their great attempts Certaine report saith the Phisiognomer that Aristotle héere meaneth by the vnshamefast persons these naturally théeues violent prollers and euill tongued I affirme saith Cocles that by the martiall théeues the Philosopher doth meane the worthy souldiers forasmuch as such which liue and apply their wits and minds in the wars exercise none other then warlike attemptes after the maner of the common spoilers and théeues in purchasing great booties and spoiles héere and there whether these attaine it by right or wrong after a warlike custom as we daily sée And as further in the Phisiognomy of the Planet Mars shall be vttered and in the positure of Mars in the hand c. to come forth The Toes decerned close ioyned together doe denote such a person to haue a natural scowring or Flixe of the belly and such a creature applied for the forme vnto that kinde of Quaile which séeketh his food by fresh Waters for his often and much dunging Rasis reporteth that when the héeles are séene small in forme indicateth such a person to be weak of strength and fearefull The héeles decerned big and fast of flesh denoteth such a person to be strong and bold as the former Rasis saith Albertus and Phylemon report that the breast of the foote when the same shall be formed Fleshy and not hollow in such maner that treading with the same on the earth it séemeth to lye with an euen vpper face of the sole on the ground doth innuate such a person to be crafty and malicious for this is a note of the cold flegme abounding on the forme And this easily receiueth formes inasmuch as that the same is of a light cause mooued of the weake mouer And of this is the craftinesse in that subiect caused The Philosopher Aristotle vttreth that whose inner part of the sole of the foote shall not be decerned hollow but on such wise filled that with the whole foot in the treading the same toucheth the ground is denoted to be a creature wily mutable and full of deceits When the breast of the foote shall appeare hollow and in a contrary maner vnto the first dooth signify by the contrary condition the goodnesse of vnderstanding and a good composition well directed and the goodnesse of conditions When the hollow of the foote shall be leane it portendeth melancholy and consumptions in that creature The learned Conciliatore saith that the foote thicke and short denoteth such a person for to bée strong and hardy The feet very long doe denote such a person to be deceitfull and wicked as Writeth Conciliatore The féet excéeding meane both in the thinnesse and shortnesse demonstrateth a wicked person The soles of the féet compounded with fat flesh denoteth such a person to be strong bold a good goer of iournies on foot The féete soft thorough the large filling of the skin about do demonstrate such a person to bée a deceiuer The féete crooked and hauing the soles verie hollow and wrinkled are persons to be shunned for that such are crafty and wicked in their dooings The soles of the féet euen alike argueth such a person to be weake of strength and an ill goer on foot The héeles slender soft doth argue such a person to be weake and fearfull The héeles big and fast of flesh denoteth such a person to be strong and bold The soles of the féet and long héels filled with flesh do indicate such a person to be foolish péeuish especially if the toes be soft and large The feet hollow argueth such a one to be circumspect witty and honest The feet fleshy and hard compassed denoteth a péeuish vnderstanding foolishnesse and a procurer oâ— miuries The feet smal faire tender argueth a fornicator and setting by himselfe Sâ—me report that the toes close ioyning denoteth â—he Flux or scowring of the belly or the stink of sweat and 〈◊〉 sauâ—ur of the body in that person Rasis 〈…〉 the hands and feet amiable and smalâ— declareth the condition of the whole bodye to be weaâ— and the heat of the same to be small Aâ—beâ—tus reporteth that those weomen which haue 〈…〉 are â—â—test to conceiue with Child Hitherto â—f the feet The iudgement of treading â—n generall The 54. chapter THe Philosopher in libro regimine principum sayeth that the ouermuch swiftnesse in treading doth argue a hot quality Such a person which goeth a soft pace is of a cold and flegmatick quality But he which goeth a meane pace is of a temperate quality The paces large and slow do procéede of a laudable discourse and that such a person shal prosper for the most part in his works and déeds as the Phisiognomer obserued in his Patron Alexander Bentiuolus the sonne of Iohn Bentiuolus the second of that name The shortnesse of the paces dooth innuate the contrary that is froward conditions and to bee euill disposed in his workes The same affirmeth Rasis who saith that the paces large and slow or softly denoteth a friendly person and the paces quicke and short to be a hasty person and very carefull in all his busines yet is hee ignorant to bring them about and to end them That famous Albertus reporteth that the pace of a man procéeding of the inclination of Nature doth demonstrate of the same what the quallities of the mind and conditions are Such which take long paces in their goinges are noted bold of courage and strong after the mind of Albertus Such hauing disordered paces are denoted to be of an euill disposed minde niggards most commonly sad and disquieted with many cares Such encombred with a maruellous sorrow and heauinesse tread with contrary paces from the former And if such bee Craftes-men then are they close minded The swiftnes of pace in bearing the body vpright and in a séemely personage argueth a quick witted person and subtle and one which better beginneth matters than endeth them The creature which mooueth the eyes quicke and often shutteth them together and bending his body is he goeth is iudged to be fearful a niggard crafty and full of deceit If any through his swiftnes of going hath a troubling of the eies the head steddily standing breatheth fast such a one is denoted to be bold vnconstant and very crafty Such as tread with short paces and hastening or quicked are weake of strength fearfull and a niggard When the hands and feet moue togither with the bodie in the